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CfP: Interactive Storytelling '08

jpzagal — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:07:31

Interactive Storytelling'08

1st Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling

26-29 November 2008, Erfurt, Germany

http://www.ai.fh-erfurt.de/ICIDS08

Submission Deadline: June 15, 2008

The first joint conference of the two previous European conference series: - TIDSE (“Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling”) and - ICVS (“Virtual Storytelling – Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling”)

CfP: 2nd Brunel University Annual Postgraduate Games Conference

jpzagal — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:29:34

Call For Papers

The 2nd Brunel University Annual Postgraduate Games Conference, 16th September 2008

Deadline for abstracts 15th June 2008.

Keynote Speaker: Peter Molyneux, Lionhead Studios.

Paper proposals are sought for the Digital Games : Theory & Design postgraduate conference at Brunel University in Uxbridge, London to be held on 16/09/2008. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for postgraduate games studies students to present work or work-in-progress to their peers and more experienced games researchers. Any postgraduate Masters or PhD student whose work includes a focus on digital games is invited to send a proposal.

CFP: ACM Future Play 2008

jpzagal — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:13:02

ACM Future Play 2008

The International Academic Conference on the Future of Game Design and Technology

Nov 3,4,5, Toronto, Canada

Future Play is an internationally regarded event for academic researchers, games developers, government representatives and even more of the cool, smart people who are the leading edge of the games industry.

CfP: PhD-seminar 'Computer Game Research - Theory and Method - June 17-19 2008

jpzagal — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:19:52

PhD-seminar 'Computer Game Research - Theory and Method' June 17-19 2008

Nordic Game Research Network would like to invite Nordic PhD-candidates within computer game research to participate in a PhD-seminar held at InDiMedia / VR Media Lab, Aalborg University (DK) and Dronninglund Slot, June 17–19, 2008.

CfP: DIMEA 2008 ( 3rd ACM International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts)

jpzagal — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:55:24

3rd ACM International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts

DIMEA 2008

10-12 September 2008

Athens Information Technology (AIT), Athens, Greece

Conference Web site: http://www.dimea2008.org

Full Papers and Art Works/Games/Demos Submission Deadline: May 12th, 2008

Workshop Proposals Deadline: April 15th, 2008

Tutorial Proposals Deadline: April 18th, 2008

The advances in computer entertainment, multi-player/online gaming, technology-enabled art, culture and performance have created new forms of entertainment that attract, immerse and absorb their participants. The phenomenal success of such a "culture" to initiate a mass audience in patterns and practices of its own consumption has supported the evolution of an enormously powerful mass entertainment, digital art and performance industry extending deeply into every aspect of our lives, leading further to major societal and business contacting changes.

New Book: Understanding Video Games (Game studies text book)

jpzagal — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:20:35

Understanding Video Games by Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Jonas Heide Smith, and Susana Tosca

Further information at: http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415977210/introduction.asp

New Book: Playground Worlds:Creating and Evaluating Experiences of Role-Playing Games

jpzagal — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:46:03

PLAYGROUND WORLDS PUBLISHED!

The latest Nordic collection on role-playing games, Playground Worlds: Creating and Evaluating Experiences of Role-Playing Games was published last week. Edited by Markus Montola and Jaakko Stenros (editors of Beyond Role and Play four years ago), the book features 25 papers written by authors from six countries.

KEYWORDS: role play, role-playing game, larp, pervasive game, ARG, participatory art, educational role-play, Happenings, pretence play, gaming culture, larp production, rpg criticism, rpg genre, larp design, Forge theory, jeepform, Nordic larp

CfP: Women in Games Conference 2008

jpzagal — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:39:36

Women in Games Conference

University of Warwick, UK

10-12th September 2008

The Women In Games conference encourages research and seeks to promote careers for women within the games industry. If games are to become a true sibling medium to music and cinema, the industry needs greater balance in its audience and its workforce. The Women In Games conference welcomes participants from both industry and academia, providing a forum for presentation and discussion of issues relating to all aspects of women's involvement in games, including game development, game playing and women as portrayed within games.

CFP: Perspectives on the History of Computer Games

jpzagal — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:26:01

This is a Call for Papers for a special issue of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.

CfP: Mobile Mixed Reality Games (special session at DIMEA 2008)

jpzagal — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:12:09

CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL SESSION

* Mobile Mixed Reality Games *

3rd International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts (DIMEA 2008)

10-12 September 2008, Athens, Greece

http://www.dimea2008.org

Submission Deadline: April 30, 2008

CfP: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Games and Intelligent Toys Based Education (DIGITEL 2008)

jpzagal — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:05:51

2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Games and Intelligent Toys Based Education (DIGITEL 2008)

November 17-19, 2008, Banff, Canada http://www.ask4research.info/digitel/2008/

Sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology

The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

Important dates

Submissions due: May 30, 2008

Decision notification: August 1, 2008

Final articles due: September 12, 2008

Conference: November 17-19, 2008

CfP: Sandbox Symposium '08 (extended deadline)

jpzagal — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:18:16

Sandbox Symposium 08

Call for Participation

The third annual ACM SIGGRAPH Sandbox Symposium on videogames calls for papers, panel proposals, and presentations. We are looking for work that describes or illustrates innovative research in videogame theory, practice, and criticism. Video games are a singular technological medium, comparable in cultural impact to the telephone, television or the Internet. What are the creative, technological, and commercial challenges facing this medium in the future? How do we relate great stories that leverage advances in technology? What is the continuing impact of this medium on individuals and society?

CfP: Meaningful Play 2008

jpzagal — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:42:53

Meaningful Play 2008

October 9 - 11, 2008

East Lansing, MI, USA

http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu

CfP: MindTrek 2008: Entertainment and Media in the Ubiquitous Era

jpzagal — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:59:05

11th MindTrek Conference MindTrek 2008: Entertainment and Media in the Ubiquitous Era

Call for Position Papers, Workshops, Workshop Contributions

October 7th to 9th 2008 in Tampere, Finland

http://www.mindtrek.org

http://www.mindtrek.org/cfp

CfP: IE2008 - The Fifth Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment

jpzagal — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:30:09

IE2008 - The Fifth Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment

3-5 December 2008

Brisbane, Australia Key dates:

Long (up to 10 pages) and short papers (up to 6 pages) submission: June 20th 2008
Demonstration abstracts (up to 3 pages): 14th July 2008

The Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, in its fifth year, is a cross-disciplinary conference that brings together researchers from artificial intelligence, audio, cognitive science, cultural studies, drama, HCI, interactive media, media studies, psychology, computer graphics, as well as researchers from other disciplines working on new interactive entertainment specific technologies or providing critical analysis of games and interactive environments.

Job: Professor in Game Design & Interactive Animation (teaching in French)

jpzagal — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:44:51

L’ÉCOLE DES ARTS VISUELS invites applications for two tenure-track positions in Game Design & Interactive Animation

First position Professor specialized in Real Time and Interactive Animation, installation and game engines.

Second position Professor specialized in ludology, media studies, game design and digital narratives.

New textbook: "An Introduction to Game Studies: Games in Culture"

jpzagal — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:44:29

An Introduction to Game Studies: Games in Culture by Frans Mäyrä

SAGE Publications, 2008.

http://gamestudiesbook.net/

An Introduction to Game Studies is the first introductory textbook for students of game studies. It provides a conceptual overview of the cultural, social and economic significance of computer and video games and traces the history of game culture and the emergence of game studies as a field of research.

Key concepts and theories are illustrated with discussion of games taken from different historical phases of game culture. Progressing from the simple, yet engaging gameplay of Pong and text-based adventure games to the complex virtual worlds of contemporary online games, the book will guide students towards analytical appreciation and critical engagement with gaming and game studies.

CfP: Videogame panel at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting

jpzagal — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:56:25

Call for Papers Abstracts due March 21st

Panel Title Beyond the Online: Critical Collaborations and Dialogues among Anthropological Approaches to Video Games

CfP: Under the Mask: Perspectives on the Gamer

jpzagal — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:46:59

Research Institute for Media Art and Design, University of Bedfordshire, Luton

June 7th 2008

Which ever title you select, ‘Consumer’, ‘Audience’, ‘Receiver’, Player’, ‘Operator’, or ‘Gamer’, the fundamental issues remain the same in videogames: who and what is the Operator? What role do Gamers play within their communities or within their cultures? How do Players situate themselves in a competitive or casual environment and make sense of the game in light of genre, reception and history? How is the game used, culturally, socially and psychologically?

This conference aims to address the issues that surround the Player of videogames as contributor and consumer of specific cultures, not only through presentation and discussion, but also through actively engaging with games and Gamers. The President of DiGRA, Professor Tanya Krzywinska, will provide the keynote.

CfP: Mobile Gaming '08

jpzagal — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:36:13

Mobile Gaming '08

Workshop @ Informatik 2008 in Munich

http://sam.iai.uni-bonn.de/mobile-gaming/

The Future of Interactive Technology for Peace Conference

jpzagal — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:39:27

The Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University invites you to The Future of Interactive Technology for Peace Conference on April 2 & 3, 2008 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For more information regarding the conference and to register, please go to:

http://www.etc.cmu.edu/peace2008/

Full Time Positions at ITU Copenhagen

jpzagal — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:37:22

There are 2 Assistant/Associate Professorships open at the IT University of Copenhagen in Game Technology and Game Design (deadline: April 11). There is also a call out for PhD scholarships (deadline: April 7).

Full information on all the vacancies can be found at http://www1.itu.dk/sw487.asp (links there for the pdf's with details).

Living Game Worlds IV: Interplay

jpzagal — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:38:06

Living Game Worlds IV: Interplay - NEW DATES - December 1-2, 2008

Living Game Worlds IV will focus on the theme of networked play and engage dialogues on the rapidly growing domain of multiplayer games and virtual worlds, including online networked entertainment as well as pervasive, mobile and tangible gaming. The symposium will explore various aspects of networked play from historical, cultural, technological and design perspectives, as well as current and future trends such as user-created content and the rising use of virtual worlds in the workplace.

IndieCade: International Festivals of Independent Games 2008

jpzagal — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:41:19

Call for submissions—IndieCade: International Festivals of Independent Games @ Open Satellite, July 10-13, 2008

Game artists and designers from around the world are invited to submit their work. IndieCade welcomes independent interactive media of all types, from art to commercial to academic, from ARG to abstract, from serious to shooter. Entrants will also be considered for year-round international showcase exhibitions.

Submissions Close Midnight April 11, 2008 PST. For more information and eligibility details, and to enter, visit http://www.IndieCade.com

Full-Time Tenure Track Faculty Position - Game Design (ext. deadline)

jpzagal — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:42:59

Institution: Bloomfield College
Location: Bloomfield, NJ
Category: Faculty - Fine and Applied Arts - Digital Arts
Application Due: 03/31/2008
Type: Full-time tenure track position in Game Design

CfP: Facial and Bodily Expressions for Control and Adaptation of Games (ECAG '08)

jpzagal — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:39:17

Facial and Bodily Expressions for Control and Adaptation of Games (ECAG '08)

http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/conference/ECAG08

Workshop organized in conjunction with the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition ( http://www.fg2008.nl/ ) FG 2008

September 16 (one day before the FG 2008 conference), Amsterdam

CfP: CGSA Conference 2008 (deadline Feb 28)

jpzagal — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:24:17

The Canadian Game Studies Association invites all members of the international game studies community to contribute paper and panel proposals for our second annual conference. The conference will take place May 31, 2008, in Vancouver, Canada at the University of British Columbia. The CGSA conference is scheduled in conjunction with the Canadian Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences <http://www.fedcan.ca/english/congress/about/>

The theme of this year's Congress is "Thinking Beyond Borders | Global Ideas: Global Values".

CfP: 2nd European Conference on Games Based Learning

jpzagal — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:08:56

The Hotel Silken Diagonal Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

16-17 October 2008

CONFERENCE URL

http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2008/ecgbl08-minitrack.htm#history

Track co-chairs: Dr Tobias Bevc, Political Science, Technical University of Munich and Dr Erik Champion, Digital Media, Media Arts, COFA, University of New South Wales, Australia

CfP: IEEE International Conference on Digital Games and Intelligent Toys Based Education (DIGITEL 2008)

jpzagal — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:51:36

November 17-19, 2008, Banff, Canada

http://www.ask4research.info/digitel/2008/

** Sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology

The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

Important dates:

Submissions due: May 30, 2008

Decision notification: August 1, 2008

Final articles due: September 12, 2008

Conference: November 17-19, 2008

CfP: Three Edited Books on Digital Culture

jpzagal — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:40:45

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THREE EDITED BOOKS (Edited by Andy Kavoori, Grady College, University of Georgia, Athens, GA)

Blog-Based Peer Review: Reviewers Wanted

jpzagal — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:12:02

MIT Press has authorized what is probably one of the first blog-based peer reviews for a forthcoming book by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, digital media writer, artist, and professor of communication at the University of California, San Diego (http://grandtextauto.org/2008/01/22/expressive-processing-an-experiment-in-blog-based-peer-review/) . Every weekday over the next ten weeks, Wardrip-Fruin will post a section of his new manuscript, Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies, on the popular Grand Text Auto blog (where he is a regular author)(http://grandtextauto.org/), with the hope of receiving quality feedback from the site's readers. The GTxA community represents a vibrant network of media scholars, artists, designers and gaming professionals who are perfectly suited to critique this inherently cross-disciplinary work. When Doug Sery, the editor at MIT, asked Wardrip-Fruin who would be the ideal reviewers for the manuscript, his first instinct was to somehow bring the process to the blog: "I immediately realized that the peer review I most wanted was from the community around Grand Text Auto."

Job: Faculty Director of Gaming Center

jpzagal — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:32:21

FACULTY DIRECTOR OF GAMING CENTER

Skirball Center for New Media

TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

New York University

New York University is establishing a multi-school center for the research design and development of electronic interactive games to be housed in Skirball Center for New Media at Tisch School of the Arts, and is searching for a faculty director (Arts Professor track – open rank) for an appointment to commence in September 2008.

CfP: Computer Games, Between Text and Practice– Special issue of E/C

jpzagal — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:14:22

E|C, the e-journal of the Italian Association for Semiotic Studies (http://www.ec-aiss.it/), is dedicating a special issue in 2008 to the semiotics of computer games. It will be edited by Dario Compagno (PhD Researcher in Semiotics at the University of Siena, Italy) and Patrick J. Coppock (Tenured Researcher in Philosophy and theory of languages at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy).

CfP: AIIDE'08 - Fourth Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment

jpzagal — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:57:19

October 22-24, 2008

Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

Submissions deadlines:

Papers and Industry Track abstracts due April 22, 2008 Extended abstracts for demonstrations due May 6, 2008

http:www.aiide.org

AIIDE'08 - the Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment - is intended to be the definitive point of interaction between entertainment software developers interested in AI and academic and industrial AI researchers. AIIDE'08 will include invited speakers, research and industry presentations, project demonstrations, and product exhibits. While traditionally emphasizing commercial computer and video games, we invite researchers and developers to share their insights and cutting-edge results on all topics at the interface of entertainment and artificial intelligence, including serious games, entertainment robotics, and beyond. AIIDE'08 is sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

CfP: 2nd Annual Conference Canadian Game Studies Association

jpzagal — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:01:03

2nd Annual Conference 2008

Canadian Game Studies Association

University of British Columbia

DATE: 31 May 2008

Paper and panel proposals are invited for our second annual conference to be held in conjunction with the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences(http://www.fedcan.ca/english/congress/about/). This years theme is “Thinking Beyond Borders | Global Ideas: Global Values”. Not all presentations need be related to this theme.

Submissions are invited on all topics related to digital games and digital games research, especially those that can show an interdisciplinary or international perspective. A selected number of presenters will be invited to submit a full paper for publication in an edited collection.

CfP: Play Conference - Edinburgh

jpzagal — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:43:48

Play: A two-day international, interdisciplinary conference hosted by the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh, May 23rd-24th.

http://forum.llc.ed.ac.uk/play/

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato

Play is the exultation of the possible. - Martin Buber

What is play to the cat is death to the mouse. - German Proverb

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. - Jack Nicholson

Frivolous, serious, political, humorous, powerful: play permeates every aspect of contemporary culture and has become a central concern within the humanities, inspiring a variety of approaches and interpretations. When do we play, or perhaps, when do we not play? Is contemporary culture characterized by its playfulness? Have we always been playing? What are the social and cultural functions of play? Can play be political or must it always be frivolous? Is it a universal and intrinsic human activity? How do different cultures play?

CfP: Edutainment 2008

jpzagal — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:27:34

Edutainment 2008

June 25-27, 2008 at Nanjing Normal University, China

http://edutainment2008.eegame.cn

Edutainment 2008 is the third International Conference on E-learning and Games, which is an international forum for researchers to share their latest research output on the development and application of e-learning and digital entertainment systems. Edutainment 2008 will be held at
Nanjing Normal University in June 28-30, 2008. The conference will
include plenary invited talks, workshops, tutorials, paper presentation tracks and panel discussions. Three to six keynote speakers will be invited.

CfP: Games for Change Festival

jpzagal — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:15:08

Games for Change is happy to announce a call for proposals for the 5th Annual Games for Change Festival on June 2 - 4 at Parsons, the New School for design in New York City.

PROPOSALS ARE DUE FEBRUARY 11th to: events@gamesforchange.org.

Confirmed speakers include Jim Gee and Henry Jenkins in a keynote conversation (in honor of our Fifth!) and many others!

CfP: Future and Reality of Gaming

jpzagal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:27:20

Future and Reality of Gaming (F.R.O.G.) Vienna Games Conference, 17.-19. October 2008 Digital games have become a driving factor of contemporary cultural, social, and economic development. They are enablers of global cultural exchange and serve as entry points for media participation. However, the cultural, social and economic significance of games usually remains underestimated or misunderstood by the general public. In 2007, the City of Vienna decided to host “Game City”, a high profile event bringing together representatives of the games industry, non-profit organizations, academia and the general public for the discussion of the current state of computer games, digital youth cultures and games research. One key element of “Game City” was the Vienna Games Conference, which had the objective of serving as a public information platform as well as an international networking event for game researchers of various disciplines. Due to the overwhelming success of this concept, the “Game City” event and the Vienna Games Conference will be held again in the fall of 2008.

CfP: Under the Mask: Perspectives on the Gamer Conference

jpzagal — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:33:30

Research Institute for Media Art and Design

University of Bedfordshire

Luton

June 7th 2008

PhD Adaptive multiplayer ubiquitous games: design principles and an implementation framework

natkin — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:12:24

Chen Yan have the pleasure to invite you for the viva of her PhD entitled "Adaptive multiplayer ubiquitous games: design principles and an implementation framework" the 18 of December 11 :15 am room 35.3.35 (entry 35, 3 floor, room 35) du CNAM ( 2, rue conté 75003 Paris, France).

Cfp: Nordic Serious Games Conference

jpzagal — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:06:26

Nordic Serious Games Conference (NSG)

February 28-29, 2008

NORDIC SERIOUS GAMES CONFERENCE

Nordic countries have versatile expertise for cross-sector excellence in the emerging field of Serious Games. As part of interactive media industry this field focuses on designing and using digital games for real-life purposes such as education, health care, safety, public policy, and business development. The Nordic Conference of Serious Games invites all actors, academic, public as well as commercial, to gather to explore the Nordic know-how in the area.

The Nordic Conference of Serious Games will take place on February 28-29, 2008 in Jyväskylä, Finland. The conference aims to create a multi-disciplinary forum where actors from academia as well as industry and a multitude of end-user organizations come together to share experiences, ideas and knowledge.

Cfp: International Workshop on Interactive Digital Entertainment Technologies (IDET 2008)

jpzagal — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:00:19

International Workshop on Interactive Digital Entertainment Technologies (IDET 2008)

15 -16 July, 2008, Lanzhou University, China

http://www.hkws.org/events/idet2008

With the significant development of digital technologies in recent years, we are seeing more and more applications of digital technologies, in particular in the entertainment domain. These applications may include computer games, e-learning, interactive TVs and virtual environments. This workshop aims at providing opportunities for researchers and developers to share their experiences and for investors to share their visions in digital entertainment. We call for papers that cover the technology aspect as well as application aspect of digital entertainment, including but not limited to the following topics:

Realistic and non-realistic rendering, time-critical rendering
Real-time animation techniques
Hardware (haptics) and software interfacing techniques
Content creation, automatic story generation
Content delivery and streaming technologies
System and server architectures
Network and distributed systems technologies
Applications: games, virtual environments, education, movies, interactive TVs

CfP: IFIP Entertainment Computing Symposium (ECS-2008)

jpzagal — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:59:31

1st IFIP Entertainment Computing Symposium (ECS-2008) "New Frontiers for Entertainment Computing"

(IFIP 2008, Track on Computer Games and Entertainment)

http://www.cs.unibo.it/~ifip2008gamestrack/

Milan, Italy, Sept 7-10 2008

Computer Games, Law, Regulation and Policy Symposium

jpzagal — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:34:13

14-15 February 2008 QUT, Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane

CFP: IGDA Education SIG Summit Call for Posters

jpzagal — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:05:09

IGDA EDUCATION SIG SUMMIT February 18 & 19, 2008

GamesCultures.org Open Invitation

jpzagal — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:34:22

This is an open invitation to a collaborative effort into mapping digital play around the world. Currently only scattered information on the popularity and forms of engagement with digital games in global context exist. Often particularly in media statements are nevertheless made that concern “all gamers”, even if researchers emphasise how both games and playing takes multiple forms and claims about some particular game or group of players do not necessarily apply to another. In the spirit of the recent “Situated Play” conference (DiGRA 2007), we propose a collaborative effort of collecting together research, observation and data about forms of play around the world. See: www.gamescultures.org, an open beta of wiki resource about global games cultures.

CfP: Symposium Issue of Simulation & Gaming - Emergent characteristics of global gaming networks

jpzagal — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:08:16

Theme: Emergent characteristics of global gaming networks

Guest Editor Jan H.G. Klabbers, jklabbers AT kmpc.nl

Values@Play Site Launched

jpzagal — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:13:40

Last weekend the Values at Play research project launched its website, http://www.valuesatplay.org, which offers a wealth of game design ideas and scholarship about games and values. Valuesatplay.org has also begun accepting submissions for its Social Impact Game Contest. The Values At Play project, a collaboration between Hunter College’s innovative Tiltfactor Lab (http://www.tiltfactor.org) and New York University, is an inquiry into the ideas and belief systems latent in video games.

CfP: ICEC 2008

jpzagal — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:06:09

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL for PAPER

International Conference on Entertainment Computing ICEC 25-27th September 2008

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

http://www.etc.cmu.edu/icec2008/

Digital Library

lankoski — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:44:00

There were a bug in bibtext and endnote converters, and the names were in wrong format. That issues is now corrected. Please. let me know if you notice anything odd in exporters or in dl in general.

/Petri

CfP: Breaking the Magic Circle - Game Studies Seminar

jpzagal — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:59:46

Call for Papers: Game Studies Seminar, Tampere 10-11 April, 2008

Deadline Extended: Digital Games Area for the PCA/ACA 2008 National Conference

GVoorhees — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:11:39

Deadline extended: The deadline for submission of abstracts or proposals to the Digital Games area of the 2008 National Conference of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association has been extended to November 30, 2007. The conference will be held March 19-22 at the San Francisco Marriot, San Francisco. View the full CFP by following the link below.

CfP: The [Player] Conference (at IT Copenhagen)

jpzagal — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:48:40

The Center for Computer Games Research at the IT University in Copenhagen is pleased to announce/ The [Player] Conference/, a conference for games researchers taking place August 26th - 29th 2008.

CfP: The Philosophy of Computer Games Conference 2008

jpzagal — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:31:17

We hereby invite scholars in any field who take a professional interest in the phenomenon of computer games to submit papers to the international conference "The Philosophy of Computer Games 2008", to be held in Potsdam, Germany, on May 8-10, 2008.

Situated Play Conference proceedings online

lankoski — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:00:32

Dear DiGRA friends, Today we finished building the DiGRA2007 proceedings at DiGRA Digital Library online. Now you can see the recent 100+ papers as same as the past DiGRA proceedings. http://www.digra.org/dl/ Enjoy! P.S. Our printing company still does not finish the shipping of all delayed CD-ROM proceedings, so please wait a moment...

-- YAMANE Shinji Ricard, Ph.D student DiGRA2007 Organizing Committee

Call for Conference Organisers DiGRA 2009

lankoski — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:13:08

Digital Games Research Conference 2009
www.digra.org | www.gamesconference.org

The Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) has as a central goal the support of an international conference on digital gaming. Three world conferences have taken place, the first in Utrecht, the Netherlands (2003), the second in Vancouver, Canada (2005) and the third in Tokyo, Japan (2007).

This document is a call for proposals for a committee and location to host the next of DiGRA’s international games research conference for 2009.

Institutions wishing to put themselves forward should consider the following aims of DiGRA when putting their proposal together and highlight how the event they would organise would achieve these:

To support digital games research as an interdisciplinary field
To encourage dialogue between researchers, practitioners, commercial organisations and policy makers
To support digital gaming students and curriculum development
To disseminate work produced by the association’s community

DiGRA is keen to receive proposals that tackle these issues in an innovative manner and build upon established conference practices.

It is envisaged that DiGRA conferences will each have a central theme but that this will in no way compromise the inclusiveness of research into digital gaming from a wide range of researchers, disciplines and empirical domains. The official language of the conference will be English.

CfP: Journal of Game Development

jpzagal — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:43:09

The Journal of Game Development is now accepting submissions.

The Journal of Game Development (JOGD) is a journal dedicated to the dissemination of leading-edge, original research, as well as the underpinnings that detail the most recent findings in related academic disciplines, hardware, software, and technology. This will directly affect the way games are conceived, developed, produced, and delivered. The research in the journal will come from both academia and industry.

Junior Professor Position at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

jpzagal — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:29:28

You can find this information as an English language pdf here:

http://acagamics.de/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/virtualenviroengl.pdf

or in German here:

http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/Stellenanzeigen.html

Open Positions GameLab Singapore

jpzagal — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:42:22

We're starting a truly exciting research project in our Games Lab in Singapore!

Applications open for GDC Student Scholarship program

jpzagal — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:40:16

Deadline for entry is December 7th.

Full details are online:

http://www.igda.org/scholarships/

Edu: PhD Positions at Utrecht University

jpzagal — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:59:13

The Game Research for Training and Entertainment (GATE) programme is a cooperation of several Dutch universities, research institutes and game development companies. Within GATE, the Research Institute for History and Culture (OGC) of Utrecht University's Faculty of Humanities executes the research project Design rules for learning through simulated worlds.

CfP: Hybrid Reality Games (Edited Book)

jpzagal — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:19:56

CALL FOR PAPERS for Edited Book Hybrid Reality Games: Reconfiguring social and urban networks via locative media Edited by: Adriana de Souza e Silva, Ph.D. (Communication, North Carolina State University) souzaesilva@ncsu.edu Daniel Sutko (Communication, North Carolina State University) dmsutko@ncsu.edu

Computer Game Analysis, Film Theory and the Future of Screen Studies (Event)

jpzagal — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:24:55

November 9th 2007
10 am - 4 pm Elvin Hall
Institute Of Education,
University of London
London WC1H 0AL, UK

At this one-day seminar speakers will address the relationship between computer games, film and film theory for a post-graduate Film Studies/Media Studies/Game Studies audience.

Edu: PhD Scholarships at IT Copenhagen

jpzagal — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:25:01

The IT University in Copenhagen, Denmark, has announced a number of state-financed Ph.D. scholarships and applicants from all over the world are welcome to apply. We call for applications within the area of innovative communication (including internet communication and culture) and within the area of computer games research (as well as for applications within more traditional computer science areas). Deadline for applications is October 22nd, 2007.

Call for Papers: The International Journal of Role Playing (IJRP)

lankoski — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:52:00

The International Journal of Role Playing (IJRP) is now accepting submissions for the 1^st issue, due out in early 2008. Deadline for submissions is January 1^st, 2008.

The International Journal of Role Playing invites researchers, designers, developers, academics, artists and others involved in the growing field of research related to role playing to submit articles. The IJRP is a peer-reviewed journal, and welcomes submissions from any sphere of interest, knowledge network, research field or development sector that directly or indirectly relates to role playing interests.

Call for Papers: Digital Games Area, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association 2008 National Conference.

GVoorhees — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:44:28

The combined Digital Games areas of the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association invite proposals for papers and panels on digital games (video games, computer games, arcade games, etc.) and digital game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held March 19-22, 2008, at the San Francisco Marriott, San Francisco

The organizers seek proposals covering all aspects of digital gaming, gaming culture and game studies, within or across disciplinary conversations, and all theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome.

Jose Zagal asks who will Continue to Blaze the Trail?

lankoski — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:42:52

A new DiGRA Hardcore Column is out. This time, Jose Zagal wonders where we want our research community to go, and more importantly who is the next generation of game scholars that is going to help us get there? Column at http://www.digra.org/hardcore/hc17.

CfP: Symposium issue of Simulation & Gaming

jpzagal — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:21:03

Call for Papers symposium issue of Simulation & Gaming

An International Journal of Theory, Practice, and Research

Theme

Emergent characteristics of global gaming networks

Guest Editor

Jan H.G. Klabbers, jklabbers AT kmpc.nl

Details

Following the Symposium issues “State of the Art and Science of Simulation/Gaming”, Volume 32, Number 4, December 2001, “Simulation and Gaming: The art & science of design”, Volume 34, Number 4, December 2003, and “Artifact assessment versus theory testing”, Volume 37, Number 2, June 2006, I am preparing a special issue of the Journal Simulation & Gaming on “Emergent characteristics of global gaming networks.”

CfP: Evaluating User Experiences in Games Workshop (at CHI 2008)

jpzagal — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:32:43

Call for Position Papers

The workshop "Evaluating User Experiences in Games" invites position papers on evaluation methods for user experience in games.

CfP: Ring Bearers: The Lord of the Rings Online as Intertextual Narrative

jpzagal — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:10:53

Ring Bearers: The Lord of the Rings Online as Intertextual Narrative.

Edited by Tanya Krzywinska, Esther MacCallum-Stewart and Justin Parsler.

New Journal: Eludamos. Journal for Computer Game Culture

jpzagal — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:47:32

This new scientific, international, peer reviewed online journal deals with everything ludic and looks at digital games from a multitude of perspectives. Its approach is deliberately broad to accommodate the rapid changes and constant growth of this highly trans-disciplinary field.

Job offer professorships /

lankoski — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:43:11

Sie erhalten diese Nachricht, da Christina Schumann (c.schumann@tu-ilmenau.de) Ihnen eine Nachricht über die von Ihnen unter http://www.digra.org erreichbare Website zugeschickt hat. Die Nachricht lautet: Dear ladies and gentleman, The Institute of Media and Communication Science of Ilmenau Technical University (Thuringia, Germany) will establish a Teaching and Research Centre for Virtual Worlds / Digital Games. Within this concept, two professorship positions are to be filled: University Professorship (W3) Virtual Worlds / Digital Games Junior Professorship (W1) Socio-scientific aspects of computer games As the internationalization of our institute is a very important concern for us (we already started with our bilingual Master Programme, among other things with a focus on entertainment and digital games),

CfP: Brain-Computer Interfaces for HCI and Games

jpzagal — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:50:23

BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES FOR HCI AND GAMES http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/chi2008/ One-day Workshop at CHI 2008 http://www.chi2008.org/ Florence, Italy, April 5, 2008

CfP: INTETAIN 2008 (Deadline is soon!)

jpzagal — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:06:58

2nd International Conference on INtelligent TEchnologies for interactive enterTAINment held in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI http://intetain.org

Playa del Carmen, Cancun, Mexico January 8-10, 2008

Important Deadlines

Paper Submission Deadline: September 7, 2007 (00:00 CET)
Notification of Acceptance: October 15, 2007
Camera-ready Paper Deadline: November 12, 2007
Late-Breaking Results and Demo Deadline: October 22, 2007 (00:00 CET)
Notification of Acceptance: November 5, 2007
Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: August 14, 2007 (00:00 CET)
Workshop Proposal Notification: August 21, 2007

Serious Games - Practice and Futures Workshop

jpzagal — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:46:14

To be held in Skövde, Sweden on September 18 and 19. Please find the detailed programme and practical information on http://www.his.se/iki/sgworkshop2007

DiGRA Earlybird registration extended!

jpzagal — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:14:20

'Early-bird' registration for DIGRA 2007 has now been extended to August 24th.

You can register at: http://www.digra2007.jp/

Michael Nitsche is Rattling Cages

jpzagal — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:46:15

A new DiGRA Hardcore Column is out. This time, Michael Nitsche argues that Game Studies needs to embrace new gaming experiences and technologies while rattling the cage on established perspectives and theories.

Column: http://www.digra.org/hardcore/hc16/

CFP: Ludic Engagement Designs for All (LEDA 2007)

jpzagal — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:47:34

Ludic Engagement Designs for All: LEDA 2007 29-30 November 2007 Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark

CFP: Netgames 2007 (registration closing soon)

jpzagal — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:36:36

The NetGames workshop brings together researchers and developers from academia and industry to present new research in understanding networked games and in enabling the next generation of them. Submissions are sought in any area related to networked games.

CFP: "Beyond Boundaries" International Digital Media and Arts Association Conference (9/1/2007; iDMAa Philadelphia, 11/8-10/2007)

ritchiejj — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:55:37

"Beyond Boundaries" — The push and pull of change in the academic environment is the subject of the fifth annual International Digital Media and Arts Association (iDMAa) Conference.

iDMAa (http://www.idmaa.org/) welcomes academics, artists, designers, and industry representatives to participate in various conference activities. The conference schedule includes: refereed paper discussions, topical breakout sessions, a juried exhibition, a program showcase and several keynote speakers who are leaders in the digital field. The conference will take place November 8th through 10th in the Old City area of Philadelphia and is hosted by La Salle University.

Submit your abstract online as a word document (file should use .doc extension) by September 1st. Online Entry Form (https://www.uu.edu/forms/conferences/idmaa07/callforpapers.cfm)

Early bird registration for DiGRA Conference ends soon!

jpzagal — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:02:20

The deadline of the early registration discount for DiGRA 2007 is July 31st.

Website: http://www.digra2007.jp/

CFP: Loading... - The Journal of the Canadian Games Studies Association

jpzagal — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:48:27

For Christmas 07

Further details at http://contagion.edu.yorku.ca/cgsa/cfpxmas2007/

CFP: Joystick Soldiers: The military/war video game reader

jpzagal — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:54:24

Edited by Nina B. Huntemann and Matthew Thomas Payne

CFP: Designing for Ludic Engagement

jpzagal — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:09:27

Designing for Ludic Engagement: Exploring toys, games, and play worlds with a focus on physical and virtual attributes

29-30 November 2007

Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark

Designing for Ludic Engagement has a focus on the user's interactive, play and learning experiences when engaged in the play with toys and games. The symposium will discuss concepts and characteristics of aesthetics and design in relation to the ludic engagement that underlies the desire of play and learning.

CFP: DiGRA 2007 - Call for Abstracts

jpzagal — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:20:19

DiGRA 2007 (Digital Games Research Association International Conference 2007)

Tokyo, September 24--28, 2007

http://www.gamesconference.org/digra2007/

The call for abstracts is opened for the additional sessions in DiGRA2007. This announcement is also available at: http://www.digra2007.jp/Callforpaper.html

DiGRA 2007 Registration is open

jpzagal — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:27:28

Registration for the DIGRA conference, taking place in September 24-28, 2007, is now possible. http://www.digra2007.jp

CFP: FuturePlay 2007 (deadline extended)

jpzagal — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:27:42

FuturePlay 2007: The International Academic Conference on the Future of Game Design and Technology

www.futureplay.org

November 15-17, 2007

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The deadline for the Call for Papers and Call for Posters deadline of June 30, 2007 has been extended to July 13, 2007. Coincidently, the date of notification for all Papers and Posters has also been extended from August 3, 2007 to August 10, 2007.

PostGraduate Conference Digital Games: Theory and Design

jpzagal — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:23:34

Brunel University, West London, UK. 14 September 2007.

CFP: Serious Games/Jeux Serieux Canada - Workshop and Symposium

jpzagal — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:32:59

Montreal November 27-28, 2007

Canada is an emerging presence in game development, and has a significant population of tool development enterprises as well. The newly formed Serious Games Canada organization proposes to also demonstrate excellence in the emerging field of Serious Games. Serious Game Development is concerned with the design and construction of digital games for purposes in addition to entertainment. These purposes include: education and training, health care, safety and emergency measures, public policy, environmental support, energy, and business development.

The Serious Games Canada Symposium invites all interested parties, including commercial and non-profit developers, clients, government and non-government agencies, researchers and students to meet in Montreal and share their knowledge with each other and the world.

Serious Games - Practice and Futures Workshop

jpzagal — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:29:00

You are invited to participate in the Serious Games - Practice and Futures Workshop to be held in Skövde, Sweden on September 18 and 19. Please find the detailed programme and practical information on http://www.his.se/iki/sgworkshop2007

CFP: Gaming after Dark: Welcome to the World of Horror Videogames (edited collection)

jpzagal — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:07:47

Submissions are invited for a book-length collection of essays relating to horror video games.

CFP: 4th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment 2007 (ext. deadline!)

jpzagal — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:40:09

3-5 December, 2007

Storey Hall, RMIT University,

Melbourne, Australia

http://www.ie.rmit.edu.au

CFP: GAMEON 2007 - Bologna, Italy

jpzagal — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:35:13

GAME-ON 2007, November 20 - 22, 2007

University of Bologna

Bologna, Italy

Conference website: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/256

Hardcore Column: The School of WoW by C. Gerstner

jpzagal — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:32:38

The new edition of Hardcore has been published. Christian Gerstner argues the case for a School of Wow. Is it possible? Should it be considered, or as he argues, does it lie in the realms of Thirdspace?

http://www.digra.org/hardcore/hc15.html/

CFP: EVA 07 (Argentine Videogame Expo)

jpzagal — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:24:01

The Argentine Game Developers' Association is going to hold its 5th annual conference, EVA 07, on November 3rd-4th 2007.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

We are now in the CFP process; the deadline for proposal is September 10th.

The official language is Spanish.

Canadian Games Studies Association launches new journal

jpzagal — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:35:59

The Canadian Game Studies Association (CGSA) recently launched the inaugural issue of "Loading…" to showcase work in the emerging field of game studies. The journal is freely accessibly online. Loading… will be published online bi-annually, and in print annually.

SIGGRAPH Sandbox Symposium Program Announced

jpzagal — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:09:38

Available at http://sandbox.siggraph.org/program.html

Apply Serious Games 2007: Special deal for DiGRA members!

jpzagal — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:18:16

Special deal for DiGra Members of £199 + vat for attending the second annual Apply Serious Games conference and £99 + vat for attending the first games and serious games AI conference on 28th June in London – or £249 + vat for both. 21 + speakers over 20 sessions. Folk must let me know directly at martine@kezos.com as soon as possible to book their place.

CFP: Mobile Games Seminar 2007

jpzagal — Wed, 16 May 2007 19:00:51

Mobile Games Seminar 2007 September 27-28, 2007 Los Angeles Marriott Downtown http://info.gdconf.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/e7fR0KLhkw0RPM0FGDc0Ec

London Game Research Group - May meeting

jpzagal — Tue, 15 May 2007 03:39:57

London Game Research Group, May meeting

Gaming & Virtual Worlds Public Policy Workshop, Ren Reynolds

Thursday, 24th of May, 16:30 at the London Knowledge Lab, IoE, University of London

Address – see http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php

Title: Gaming & Virtual Worlds Public Policy Workshop

CFP: PostGraduate Conference - Digital Games Theory & Design

jpzagal — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:52:00

Paper proposals are sought for the Theory& Design postgraduate digital game studies conference at Brunel University in Uxbridge, London on 14/9/2007 . Any postgraduate Masters or PhD student is invited to send a proposal.

CFP: DIMEA 2007 (deadline approaching)

jpzagal — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:05:18

The DIMEA 2007: Second International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts will be held on the 5th - 7th September 2007 in Perth, Western Australia. DIMEA 2007 is organised jointly by Division of Arts, Murdoch University and ACM SIG CHI (Singapore Chapter).

Transistor: Last chance to apply

jpzagal — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:07:13

TransISTor http://transistor.ciant.cz is a training initiative organised by CIANT - International Centre for Art and New Technologies in cooperation with FAMU - Film and TV Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague supported by the MEDIA Training Programme of the European Union. TransISTor focuses on computer games technologies while opening up their creative potential for non-gaming storytelling domains including art, cinema, TV, educational applications and cross-media productions.

New! - International Journal of Computer Games Technology

jpzagal — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:48:26

Announcing the launch of the International Journal of Computer Games Technology, which aims to bring together both the research and development aspects of games technology, covering the whole range of entertainment computing and interactive digital media. The focus will be on three research and development frontiers: first, to expand the technology frontier in terms of both hardware and software for games, second, to validate innovative procedures including algorithms and architectures for games, and finally, to explore novel applications of games technology both for entertainment and serious games.

CFP: Learning with Games 2007

jpzagal — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:06:05

24th – 26th September 2007 Sophia Antipolis, France

http://www.lg2007.org

“Learning with Games” seeks original, high-quality research papers and demos in all areas related to serious games, including social sciences, methodologies and artwork. Research papers should describe results that contribute to advancements to the state-of-the-art of Serious Games.

Parallel sessions are foreseen for the presentation of scientific/technical papers as well as the experience in using games for higher education purpose. The global gaming community is invited to exploit the conference to disseminate its scientific and technical results.

A selection of the presented papers will be published on special issues of the International Journal of Production Planning & Control.

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstracts via the web site; these must be at least 1500-word long and must be submitted in .doc format.

Games 4 Change: Registration Open

jpzagal — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:45:00

The festival web site and registration are now up! There will be some excellent keynote addresses, highlighted sessions and featured speakers. There will also be an awards ceremony to showcase the best games for change of the past few years.

PhD student in the area of Game Technology

lankoski — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:20:30

Delft University of Technology is a multifaceted institution offering education and carrying out research within the technical sciences at an internationally recognized level. Education, research and designs are strongly oriented towards applicability. TU Delft develops technologies for future generations, focusing on sustainability, safety and economic vitality. At TU Delft we work in an environment where technical sciences and society converge. TU Delft comprises 8 faculties, unique laboratories, research institutes and schools.

Old news popping up

lankoski — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:18:00

Some old news are popping up to recent changes list as I needed to change their permissions to prevent trackback spam. Old news might pop up in future if I have missed some post that have favorable permissions for spamming.

Apologies for any inconveniences caused by this.

/Petri

CFP: ICEC2007 - IFIP 6th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (date changes!)

frans — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:21:31

IFIP 6th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC)
http://digitalmedia.sjtu.edu.cn/ICEC2007/

September 15-17, 2007
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P. R. China

Call for Papers

We invite you to participate in the prestigious 6th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2007). Entertainment is taking a very important role in our life by refreshing our mind and activating our creativity. With the development of graphics hardware and software, interactive tools, media technologies, new types of entertainment have emerged, such as network games, video-based games and mobile games. Based on the very successful preceding workshop and conferences, the next ICEC 2007 conference has been set up to offer an occasion to exchange new ideas and knowledge among researchers and developers in the field of entertainment computing. Shanghai is the most important economic and financial center in the mainland of China; it is also a tourist city, which has attracted travelers from domestic region and abroad by its commercial activity as well as its scenic beauty.

Women in Games 2007 Programme Announced

jpzagal — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:40:59

We are proud to announce a full programme for the forthcoming Women in Games 2007 conference, please visit our website on http://www.womeningames.com to check out the latest news on keynotes, themes and sessions at the event.

Currently in its fourth year, Women in Games is an annual conference with the distinct aim of highlighting the most recent, groundbreaking work in computer game research and development to both academic and industrial worlds. It has consistently addressed the empowerment and professional development for women working in, and researching into, games and the games industry.

We have quietly started a blog at http://womeningames.wordpress.com as well as http://del.icio.us/womeningames so please bookmark these sites for ongoing information.

The Women in Games conference is the only conference of it’s kind in Europe focused at the issues around women and gaming. The keynotes in 2007 have been selected to represent a new generation of thinkers working with the issues at hand.

Those interested in the event should contact conference organiser Emma Westecott at enquiries@womeningames.com .

http://synergy.newport.ac.uk/ http://artschool.newport.ac.uk

CFP: e-Learning Journal Special Issue: Games and Learning

jpzagal — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:31:01

The online peer-refereed journal e-Learning seeks submissions for its special issue on "Games and Learning."

LG2007 - Learning with Games 2007

jpzagal — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:01:58

At Politecnico di Milano, we are organizing a serious game conference, called LG2007. The aim of the conference is to share ideas and promote research, production and development on serious games used for learning and training among the gaming community. More detailed information are available on the web site: http://www.lg2007.org

CFP: AAAI Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies

jpzagal — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:58:13

CFP for the AAAI Fall Symposium on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (http://gel.msu.edu/aaai-fs07-int/)

Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington, Virginia, November 8-11, 2007 Submissions due: May 1, 2007

CFP: DiGRA 2007 Panel Proposals

jpzagal — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:37:39

The deadline for panel proposals is April 15 24:00, Apia Time (GMT -1100). The selection will be based on panel proposals. A panel session will have two hours, and a panel proposal should be up to 800 words in addition to all the full papers in the panel. Authors and organizers of panels will be requested to specify a relevant thematic focus and their relevant disciplinary backgrounds. Based on the abstracts and the specified disciplinary backgrounds, the Review Committee Chair Douglas Thomas will assign papers and panel proposals to a Review Committee member, who will assign three or more reviewers to the paper. Based on the double-blind evaluation of the reviewers and taking the relevance of the papers to the conference theme into consideration, the Program Committee will select approximately 50 papers.

Further information at: http://www.digra2007.jp/Callforpaper.html

CFP: The Everyday Lives of Videogames (Panel at AAA)

jpzagal — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:20:35

Video games are objects, commodities, things. They are imagined, produced, purchased, unwrapped, played and re-imagined. At home, at work, on the train, video games are a part of everyday lives, as mundane as they are fantastic. It has already been argued that the study of video games as a topic is nearly overwhelming in its timeliness and relevance; games have matured from the high-tech "do-it-yourself" hobby of technophiles to a dominant and pervasive sector of the worldwide entertainment industry, and in the process games have begun their inevitable contribution to contemporary anthropology.

CFP: Cybergames 2007 (update)

jpzagal — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:59:21

The Third International Conference on Games Research and Development 2007 (CyberGames 2007) will be held during 10-11 September 2007 at the Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom.

CFP: Convergence - International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.

jpzagal — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:17:47

This is a general call for submissions to Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. Convergence is published by Sage Publications, and is one of the longest-standing journals in new media studies.

Regular readers and subscribers will know that, apart from two annual special issues, Convergence publishes two numbers a year which are open to any submissions that fall within our remit. This is an open call for papers for Volume 14, number 2, which will appear in May 2008. For this issue, papers would need to be submitted by 30th May 2007.

Gamers in Society - Play in Culture seminar: open seats

jpzagal — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:49:49

We are happy to inform you that the program of Gamers in Society - Play in Culture seminar is now ready. The seminar will take place in Tampere, Finland at April 17-18, 2007, and the seminar web pages are in:

http://gamelab.uta.fi/socialgamer-seminar/

CFP: GAMEON-NA

jpzagal — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:44:00

September 10-12, 2007

Hilton University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

Organized by ETI Hosted by The University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

Co-Sponsored by: EUROSIS, Ghent University, The Moves Institute, GAMEPIPE, GRAM, Larian Studios, UBISOFT(to be confirmed)

Conference website: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/67

CFP: The Refractory - Special Issue on Games and New Media

jpzagal — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:32:48

Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media is a refereed, peer-reviewed, e-journal that explores the diverging and intersecting aspects of current and past entertainment media. The journal is published by the Cinema Studies Program, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.